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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jayjones say happens to black men in the wrong places?
(a) They are beaten by white gan?gs.
(b) They are harrassed by white police.
(c) They are shot by police without even asking the men questions.
(d) Nothing.

2. Where does the narrator go with Miss Irene one Saturday in the summer?
(a) To interview at a college.
(b) To the amphiteater where she had such an emotional experience.
(c) To visit Tash in prison.
(d) To see Neeka's father in a hospital.

3. What happens to the narrator and Neeka in May?
(a) They both turn 12.
(b) They are arrested for loitering.
(c) They graduate from high school.
(d) They both turn 16.

4. Why is Neeka resentful on the trip?
(a) She was supposed to go to the movies with a boy that day.
(b) She was supposed to go to a birthday party that day.
(c) She does not feel well.
(d) She has to watch her two younger brothers.

5. What does the narrator say is the loudest sound in the world?
(a) The sound of a grown man crying from abuse in prison.
(b) The sound of the silence while waiting to be called in to see Tash.
(c) The sound of a mother crying for her imprisoned son.
(d) The soft sound of prison gates locking.

6. Who is Daneeka Lucy Jones?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Neeka's sister-in-law.
(c) The narrator's sister-in-law.
(d) Neeka.

7. What does D ask one late night when she comes to the narrator's home?
(a) To get advice from the narrator's mother.
(b) To have something to eat.
(c) To sleep over.
(d) To borrow money.

8. How does Neeka think she could help Tash out of his legal problems?
(a) By writing her congress person.
(b) By helping him make better choices.
(c) By learning the law.
(d) She does not know.

9. Where do the girls walk?
(a) To an ice cream store.
(b) The the cousin's neighbor's house.
(c) To a large amphitheater in the park.
(d) To the basement where the party is going on.

10. What does Sly convince Tash to do?
(a) Borrow some money and bet on some horses.
(b) Go to an illegal gambling joint.
(c) Take Sly and a friend to Randall's home.
(d) Beat up a cop.

11. Why does going to a juvenile detention center seem appealing to Neeka?
(a) For some peace and quiet.
(b) Because then her mother couldn't make her babysit.
(c) To show solidarity with Tash.
(d) She would be horrified to go to such a place.

12. What do the three girls vow to do?
(a) Go to speak on Flo's behalf.
(b) Write D every day.
(c) Stay friends forever.
(d) Hide D.

13. What does D learn that the court system has done?
(a) Approved Flo's adoption request.
(b) Decided to send D to her real father in another State.
(c) Approved D's real mother to take her.
(d) Revoked Flo's rights to be a foster mother.

14. What is one thing Jayjones says black people cannot do?
(a) Walk too fast.
(b) Attend church in peace.
(c) Sing in public.
(d) Look at a cop in the eyes.

15. What does Neeka's group share?
(a) A large, picnic-style lunch.
(b) The prison food.
(c) Pictures.
(d) Anger towards Tash for getting in there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Tupac when Chapter 10 opens?

2. How does Tash refer to himself?

3. What does the narrator endure in order to get to where they are going?

4. What is the news about Tash?

5. Of what is Tash convinced about Sly?

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